Tracy: A Debugger and System Analyzer for Cross-Platform Graphics Development
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2008
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We describe Tracy, an offline graphics debugging and system analysis toolkit for cross-platform system and application development in mobile graphics. Tracy operates by recording graphics function calls and argument data of unmodified applications into a trace file for offline playback, debugging, and performance analysis. In addition, traces can be edited and converted into platform-independent C files. We pay special attention to real-time performance; our trace compression mechanism allows interactive use of applications even when tracing long, multi-thousand-frame traces in real mobile hardware. We describe the use of the toolkit through real-world use cases such as debugging a visual error or a performance problem in an application, analyzing the application quality, and benchmarking a graphics engine.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:EGGH/EGGH08/001-011,
booktitle = {Graphics Hardware},
editor = {David Luebke and John Owens},
title = {{Tracy: A Debugger and System Analyzer for Cross-Platform Graphics Development}},
author = {Kyöstilä, Sami and Kangas, Kari J. and Pulli, Kari},
year = {2008},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-3471},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-09-5},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH08/001-011}
}